Tony Castro

The Richard Alatorre I knew, the Richard Alatorre who said he had to change the world - and to a great degree…

A video of the arrest shows Wendy Carrillo looking so inebriated that she appears starting to fall in the mid…

The Richard Alatorre I knew, the Richard Alatorre who said he had to change the world - and to a great degree…

On Aug. 29, 1970, the National Chicano Moratorium in East Los Angeles protested the disproportionately high c…

New York Times bestselling author Tony Castro talks about his new book Maris & Mantle: Two Yankees, Immortali…

Ernest Hemingway, the most famous literary figure of his time, sets out in the twilight of his life on a quix…

I was being wooed to write an unauthorized biography about the world's most mysterious man since Howard Hughe…

I had the misfortune of knowing Carlos Fuentes, who died Wednesday at the age of 83 in Mexico City through Oc…

THE names most often associated with Jim Bellows, the fabled newspaper editor who died last Friday at the age…

An interview with bestselling author Tony Castro whose seventh book is 'Mantle: The Best There Ever Was' (Row…

AS A THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD schoolboy I grew up wanting to save Anne Frank. Allow me to clarify that. As a young m…

Q: Why did you decide to write a book looking at both Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle? A: Dating back to my …

The following men and women have served on the Reporters Committee's Steering Committee at some point from it…

Liudmils Konovlova, the Russian dancer Russia didn't want, has now staked her claim as the world's greatest p…

TINSELTOWN POLITICS--In Hollywood, nerds have always held a soft spot for ridicule. Tinseltown has a history …

SPECIAL ELECTION DEOMGRAPHICS-Three decades ago, as Latinos were about to overtake African Americans as the l…

AMERICAN POLITICAL HISTORY IS rife with presidential elections that were determined well before the year in w…

In one of our last conversations before his death earlier this year, author and prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi l…

LATINO PERSPECTIVE-When several dozen Tibetan monks wearing cardinal robes and gold undershirts traipsed acro…

LATINO VOICE-Antonio Villaraigosa wakes up each morning in his Santa Monica apartment to a magnificent view o…

LATINO POLITICS-Latinos in California are reeling from the likelihood that the notoriously low turnout among …

Years ago, the Brooklyn Dodgers had a star centerfielder, Pete Reiser, who much like Matt Kemp later in Los A…

They called themselves "Brownies" - the starry-eyed young activists who in the 1970s made possible Jerry Brow…

If feeling oppressed, down in the dumps and sorry for yourself are the classic prerequisites for rap stardom,…